Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?…That did not turn out so well for the evil queen.…A couple things she was able to do,…those of us in the business world are envious of.…She was able to ask a question and…get an answer, a form of data mining.…She was able to do that without a knowledge of statistics.…In the Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack,…can we do forecasting in data mining without…using an esoteric language such as r?…Or having a knowledge of statistics?…The answer is a qualified "yes."…I say "qualify" because what we can do is get…a general form of an answer to our questions…rather than a specific form we would get…with a PhD in statistics.…

I firmly believe that the general answers we…get satisfy most of our data mining and forecasting needs.…Most people would do this with the data mining…add-ins that are free and that you plug into excel.…I don't want to mislead you here.…You need to have the structure already set up on the server.…Then once it is set up, the average business manager…

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What is Microsoft business intelligence (BI), and how can you use it to benefit your organization? Learn in this quick tour of the stack with BI pro Ron Davis, who explains the three main components of a business intelligence solution (SQL Server, Excel, and SharePoint) and how companies typically use them together. Learn about the visualization, forecasting, and data-mining possibilities available within Microsoft BI. Then investigate SQL Server Integration Services, which allows you to extract, transform, and load data from a data warehouse or data mart. Start watching now to learn how Microsoft business intelligence can put your data to work for you.